First overnight 2015.01.29-30

Real friluftsliv is about to take place… And here we are me and Osvaldas carrying big backpacks towards the Jegersberg. There is no more snow these days, so overnight didn’t seemed as a “crazy” idea.

We arrived into the area which is called something like “green field” – it’s not far from the Uni and it’s a well prepared site for the activities that we are about to carry out. Our goal today is to build a camp, play some group dynamic games and prepare a meal out of the products we get from Len.

It didn’t took us long to set a camp out, my group took longest to build a tent, but in the end all of us had a lace to stay. It just happened that non of us in my little group had much experience of building such tent.

Group dynamic games followed. It was a great fun, although not all of the games were that “group dynamic” as it was supposed to be, sometimes it was more individualistic. I can’t remember the names of these games but most of them were dynamic and fun. In the end we had to talk about these games and evaluate. Those who had presented best games according to everyone – were allowed to choose products for the meal that we were supposed to prepare next.

The game which I suggested turned out to be one of groups favorites, so I could choose a product. Sadly, I was a vegetarian and all of the products were some kind of meat. The only reasonable option for me – fish, so I chose fish. Kids… this is the story how I started eating fish again…

 

Meeting the Vikings and exploring nature!

Arriving to Norway

And here we are – 2015! This year promised me adventures long time ago, but until now I didn’t believed that I am really going to Norway. It just seemed so far away from my little world which began to make me a quite depressed personality.

There is nothing wrong with Lithuania itself. It is a small beautiful country in it’s own way. But here I felt trapped in my own mind and comfort zone. Nothing outside my comfort zone seemed worth pursuing… Yeah, I admit – I am quite lazy and unenthusiastic. I like to comfort myself thinking that there are just too many good reasons not to do something and lack of encouragement (someone should be responsible, right? :D). I had and still have many many dreams and plans but those are still only dreams, because I didn’t put much effort on any of them. One day… Maybe.

There almost wasn’t a day when anxiety didn’t took over. Anxiety about the future. What shall I do for a living? What if I gona hate my profession? What shall happen to my dreams? Will I have enough time? Just too many questions in my head that seized me from doing something.

Anyway, studies abroad seems like a good start in the direction of pursuing my dreams and a good excuse to run away from my boring daily life. I made my preparations quite diligently and waited for this adventure so badly for the last few moths. Sooo badly..

Spending five moths in Norway meant that my girlfriend Karina had to be left behind for a while. After two and half year together we managed to build strong and lasting relationship. It’s a shame to be apart for such a long time, but I couldn’t handle the fact that I was becoming such a boring and unhappy person and that it might affect our relationship in the future. I didn’t want to be Karina’s disappointment. I had to leave, I had to change myself, expand my point of view, before I can be an interesting partner.

And so, this is it. I am in the plane, with my colleague Osvaldas beside me. I never flew by a passenger jet before, neither did Osvaldas. It’s going to be a really exciting journey! Pretty rough landing; 20 hours in the airport, four of which was spent outside of it because it was closed for the night; 3,5 hour bus trip to Kristiansand… And here I am – my new home. And adventures didn’t stopped there, on the same evening we made quite a few Norvegian friends, they showed us around the city, introduced me to the bar culture which seems to be really popular around here. Of course it’s popular everywhere, but I never was party guy back home, so this was entirely new to me 😛

I was really tired in the end of the day… but honestly, I never thought I would anything like this. Finally, something awesome is happening to me! We were welcome here! And it’s only the beginning…